Obituaries

Bobbie Jean Ball
May 10, 2014
Bobbie Jean Ball, 57, of Rigby, died Saturday, May 10, 2014 at her home. She was born November 28, 1956 in Idaho Falls to Clifford Hinckley Jensen and Cherry Chapman Jensen. She was raised and attended schools in Rigby and Idaho Falls. She then attended and graduated from Vogue Beauty College. She worked as a beautician throughout her life. On...
Lindsey Shae Crislip
May 9, 2014
Lindsey Shae Crislip, age 24, of Rigby, passed away Friday, May 9, 2014. Lindsey was born in Rexburg, Idaho October 24, 1989 a daughter to Michelle Lynn Crislip. She was raised in Ashton attending schools at North and South Fremont. She graduated from South Fremont High School with honors. She then attended Idaho State University in Idaho Falls. She worked...
Ronald Benton Poole
May 7, 2014
Ronald Benton Poole, 76 of Menan passed away Wednesday, May 07, 2014 at his home. He was born September 19, 1937 in Salmon to Joseph Ellsworth Poole and Aurella Hansen Poole. He was raised and attended schools in Dillon, Montana, Salmon, Idaho and Menan, Idaho. Ronald enlisted in the US Navy in 1954; he served as a Machinists Mate on...
J.T. Jones
May 4, 2014
Joseph Thomas “J.T.” Jones passed away peacefully, May 4, 2014, at the Rexburg Care Center. J.T. was born August 21, 1933, to Joseph Thomas Jones and Verna Randall Jones. He grew up and attended schools in Rexburg, Idaho, Graduating from Madison High School in 1951. He met Carol Galbraith when he was a senior and she was a freshman in...
Nancy Dale Denning
May 4, 2014
Nancy Dale Green Denning, 58, of Idaho Falls, passed away Sunday, May 4, 2014, surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Nancy was born August 1, 1955, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Dale V. Green and Mary B. Lawson Green. Nancy grew up and attended schools in the Rigby area and graduated from Rigby...
Mary Garland Sorensen
May 3, 2014
Mary Garland Weidner Sorensen was born on September 14, 1919 in Maitland, Missouri to James Lesley and Nellie Arterburn Weidner. Mary passed on May 3, 2014 in the presence of her loving family. Mary attended grammar school in Maitland and high school at North Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska. As a young girl she read novels by Zane Grey...
Margie Helen Hulse
May 1, 2014
Margie Helen Cordon Hulse, 82, of Ririe, passed away Thursday evening, May 1, 2014. Margie was born August 17, 1931 in Tucson, AZ, to Robert Clyde and Madge Davis Cordon. Margie graduated from Madison High School in 1948. Her favorite subjects were science and math. After high school, she married Dale Hulse and together they started a family. Her husband’s...
Larry "J" Hendricks
Apr 30, 2014
Larry “J” Hendricks, 79, of Lewisville, died April 30, 2014 at home with family and loved ones. He was born May 28, 1934 in the LDS Hospital on Memorial Drive in Idaho Falls. He was the son of Clinton Smith Hendricks and Delpha Myrtle Butler. He attended school in the Rigby area. He was a member of the National Guard....
Tim Beck Thomson
Apr 30, 2014
Tim Beck Thomson, 76, of Sugar City, left this world to join with relatives and friends on April 30, 2014 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Tim was born, March 13, 1938 to Royle Swainston and Mary leora Beck Thomson. He lived in Sugar City all his life. He met Irene Ellis at Ricks College at a dance, after...
Roy Edmund Rounds
Apr 29, 2014
Roy Edmund Rounds quietly crossed the veil on Tuesday April 29, 2014 surrounded by his loving wife and family. His family was his strength, his joy, his life. He was unfailingly honest in all his dealings. He spent a good deal of time using his equipment and his skills to help his neighbors, never allowing them to pay for his...
Robert Cary Guinn
Apr 28, 2014
Robert Cary Guinn, 53, of Ririe passed away Monday, April 28, 2014 at his home after a valiant battle with Mesothelioma. He was born August 21, 1960, in Denver, Colorado to Charles Vance Guinn and Jean Francis Burris Guinn. He was raised and attended schools in Byers, Colorado and Rigby, Idaho, he enjoyed wrestling and rodeoing during his high school...
Budge Clay
Apr 28, 2014
Cyrus Budge Clay, 95 of Rexburg, died Monday April 28, 2014 at his home. He was born August 31, 1918 in Idaho Falls, to Hawley Everett Clay and Myrtle Alice Dale Clay. Budge was raised in the farming communities of Archer, Rexburg and Sunnydell. When he was 10 the family moved to Mesa, Arizona then to Casa Grande, Arizona before...
Essie Serepta Howe
Apr 25, 2014
Essie Serepta Hall Howe, age 89, of Rigby, passed away April 25, 2014 at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls. Essie was born January 26, 1925 at Annis, Idaho a daughter to Warren Hall and Della May Campbell Hall. She married Leslie R. Howe, June 5, 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt...
Jerry Don Burtenshaw
Apr 24, 2014
Jerry Don Burtenshaw, 81, of Rigby, Idaho passed away Thursday, April 24, 2014 in Idaho Falls, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Jerry was born February 5, 1933 in Shelton, Idaho to John Harris and Lottie Marie Burtenshaw. He grew up and attended Shelton Buck and graduated from Rigby High School. He served in the United States Army during the Korean...
Olive Francis Deschamp
Apr 23, 2014
Olive Francis Finn Adams Deschamp, 97, of Idaho Falls, passed away in her home Wednesday, April 23, 2014. She was born August 27, 1916 in Clark, Idaho to Wilford Harris and Sarah Jeffs Finn. She attended schools in Clark and Rigby. On May 31, 1932, she married Reed Forsythe Adams. She was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus...
John Alvin Berky Jr.
Apr 23, 2014
John Alvin Berky Jr., 87, of Rigby, Idaho passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. John was born March 8, 1927 in Oaklyn, New Jersey to John Alvin Berky Sr. and Katie Margaret DeLong. He Grew up and attended schools in Pennsylvania. John married Patricia Black, September 23, 1950 in Pennsylvania. They later divorced. He...
Gale Lynn Morgan
Apr 20, 2014
Gale Lynn Morgan, 69, of Idaho Falls, Idaho passed away in his home Sunday, April 20, 2014. Gale was born October 6, 1944, to Leonard and Clara Morgan in Rigby, Idaho. He grew up and attended schools in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. After he graduated high school, he attended two years of college at Boise State. Gale...
Wayne A Violette
Apr 13, 2014
Wayne A. Violette passed away unexpectedly at his home Sunday, April 13, 2014. He was born May 4, 1941, in Anaconda, Montana. He was the only child of Al and Evelyn Fjetland Violette.The family moved to Monteview, Idaho in 1944 where Wayne lived until he attended and graduated from Idaho State Trade and Technical College, majoring in electronics. He moved...
J. Dale Browning
Apr 6, 2014
J. Dale Browning, 97 of Rigby, died Sunday, April 6, 2014 at his home. He was born August 28, 1916, in Ozone, (Bone) Idaho to James Green Browning III and Ada Poole Browning. He was raised and attended schools in Idaho Falls. On May 4, 1941 he married Dorothy “Vickie” Fern Mitchell in Idaho Falls; their marriage was solemnized in...
Yvonne Smith
Apr 6, 2014
Yvonne Anderson Jeffs Smith, 71, of Felt, Idaho died Sunday, April 6, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls from complications following back surgery. Yvonne was born February 21, 1943, to Morace and Marvella Anderson. She was raised in Thornton and Lyman and attended Union Lyman School, and graduated from Madison High School. She then attended Beauty...